WND Scoops 1998

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s “Know Your Customer” plan would have required banks to report “unusual” customer activity — including simple deposits and withdrawals — to the government. Exposure of the plan in WorldNetDaily led privacy activists to bombard the FDIC with more emails and faxes than the agency had ever previously received. Ultimately, the U.S. Senate voted 88-0 to stop the proposal.

Executive Order 13083 was President Clinton’s total re-definition of federalism. After exposure in WorldNetDaily and subsequent protests from local and state officials across the country, the White House ultimately suspended the order and issued a rewritten version.

WorldNetDaily was first to expose fundamental journalistic flaws in CNN-Time’s “Tailwind” story, which alleged American soldiers had used chemical weapons during the Vietnam war. Ultimately, CNN and Time apologized for the documentary and fired the producers.